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I heard a black preacher preaching from the text "Beware of dogs" [troublemakers]. He told the joke about the little yapping "feist" dog, as he called it, who everyday, when the neighbor would walk by with his Doberman, would throw himself at the locked gate and yap all the way down the fence line until the Doberman was past the part of the sidewalk in front of the "feist" dog's yard. One day, the fiest dog's owner went to town and the gate did not latch completely behind him. So when the Doberman came trotting down the sidewalk with his master, the feist dog ran off the porch growling and yapping, threw himself against the gate, but, this time, it opened and he found himself looking up at the Doberman who proceeded to clean his clock. When the Doberman's owner finally rescued the little feist dog, it crawled back up on its porch, began to lick its many wounds and thought [and the preacher actually said this in his sermon] "Who the hell left the gate open?"